Today’s post is brought to us by Chris, a member of the VMware community who wields some powerful Louisianan VooDoo magic (and PowerCLI). Chris uses this to show us how to take a csv file in, and use it to attach a VM to a dVS switch as well as adding the VMXNET3 nic to [...]
When was the last time you found yourself configuring VMware tools on Linux? Did having to incessantly press enter accepting the defaults drive you nuts too? I think I might be the last one to the game on this, but today I was stumbling through configuring VMware tools on a few Linux VMs. Stumbling, over [...]
While all of PowerCLI is remarkable in both it’s power and ease of use, there are some cmdlets that do not get as much airtime as they deserve. One of those, is Invoke-VMScript. From Get-Help InvokeVMScript
NAME Invoke-VMScript
SYNOPSIS Executes the specified PowerShell script in the [...]
Note: This is a brief story where I was forced to sit back and reflect on just how cool this Virtualization stuff really is. Please feel free to disregard however.
Normally I don’t write about the VMware Workstation or hosted products. It just doesn’t happen to be where I spend most of my day. Mind, [...]
Ever have to log into a the console of an ESX VM… over a slow connection? Then you’ll know all about the character repeat that comes along with that. If you haven’t experienced this… consider yourself lucky. It is especially interesting when trying to type passwords.
So how do you defeat this?
You set the “keyboard.typematciMinDelay” value [...]
Remember this? No? Well, go back and read it. I can wait. … Done? Good.
The gist of the last post, was that if you cloned, or copied a Ubuntu VM from one host to another, the UUID changes. That UUID is the basis for part of the generated MAC address, which then changes, causing me [...]
Clones and Snapshots, two of the many modern day miracles to come from virtualization. No? So they’re not as cool as VMware’s vMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduling, High Availability, Fault Tolerance are they, but the are the foundation on which that magic is built. What happens to the machine in your corporate domain when you need [...]
This is a big one to try to tackle in a single post, but the question comes up often enough to try. I figure to best answer it, it would help to understand what each does:
VMware HA
What it does: VMware HA will detects host & VM (VM heartbeat, etc) failures. On a failure it will [...]
UUIDs are wonderful! Really. They’re just not all that easy to get to, at least not when you need more than a few of them at a time. That is where this script comes in:
# get-uuid.ps1 # # Takes either a VMHost or VM object from [...]
I’ve run across several cases recently where assigning 4GB of memory to a 32bit VM caused some concern by folks looking at what’s available in the system properties.
Example:
The VM is set to use 4GB ram (4096MB) & Booted.
Properties show less than 4GB
As does Task [...]
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